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"Are you ready to go, dear?" she asked, and she turned to Adele

Tace "This is Celie, Mnificance and a note of actual exultation in her

voice

Celia, however, was not unused to this tone Mme Dauvray was

proud of her coirl's discomfort The three women spoke a feords, and then

Mme Dauvray and Celia left the rooms and walked to the entrance-

doors But as they walked Celia became alarmed

She was by nature extraordinarily sensitive to impressions It was

to that quick receptivity that the success of "The Great

Fortinbras" had been chiefly due She had a gift of rapid

coued, or deducted, or

inferred But she felt To take a metaphor from the work of the

h no

as spoken, she are that Mreatly disturbed; and she dreaded the reason of that

excite home in the motor-car she said

apprehensively: "You ht, madame?"

"No," said Mnol before A bracelet of hers came undone, and I helped her